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“We are all of us condemned to loneliness, each and every one of us.”

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“But life can take the most perfect day and ruin it. If life doesn't do it, then we'll be the ones to do it.”

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“Some pretend to, others try hard to fool themselves, but no one likes who they truly are, except in spurts.”

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“We may decide to lead the wrong life because we’ve gotten used to it.”

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“Most of us live our lives waiting for the right alignment. For this is what life is: a waiting room. But feel for the dead, who take what they’ve waited for to the underworld and continue waiting to come back to earth to be made to live again and wait some more. So, better one hour spent doing things we'll regret having done than a lifetime waiting for heaven to touch our lives.”

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“Behind your love today there are entire lives of missed encounters and chance meetings.”

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“But as I said, it’s not just the past that haunts us. What haunts us with equal magnitude is what has not happened yet, for there are shadow-selves and shadow-lives waiting in the wings all the time. We are constantly reworking and reinventing both the past and the future.”

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“Sometimes the best things couldn’t be simpler: the scent of lemon, a few bars from a Beethoven quartet, the shiny broad shoulder of a woman in a bathing suit resting on a beach towel, a seascape by Dufy, or just the smile on someone’s face you love.”

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“We never recover. Whoever bruised us left a mark that stays there forever. Do we ever recover from our parents? Or from the cruelty of our first arithmetic teacher? Or from someone loved in adolescence? You may seek to recover, and many of us are persuaded we have, until we realize that if we commit the same mistakes time and time again, it’s not because we keep choosing the wrong partner or because we don’t know how to love, but because new loves won’t help us heal from that one ancient wound. All new love can do is mask the wound – and for some, this is good enough.”

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“Pain’s like a sneaky reptile. It appears on its own, inhabits your body for as long as it chooses, sometimes forever, and, if you’re lucky, it sneaks away without saying goodbye.”

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“If you were to build the world again, to create males and females again, do not be like an inexperienced potter. Come to earth as a woman, Prabhu!

Be a woman once, oh Lord!”

— Be a Woman Once, Oh Lord!

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“People behave in strange and illogical ways when they’re afraid they may have to take responsibility. ”

— The Arabic Teacher and Gobi Manchuri

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“Money from the pockets of poor people was, just like them, broken, shattered, crumpled, wrinkly, diminished in essence and form. ”

— The Shroud

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“There are a few who are too weak to fly even if all the doors to the cage are open. There are also those who find a way through the darkness of ignorance. But the heart has to be pure. ”

— Soft Whispers

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“What voice could possibly bridge the cracks that were caused by silence? ”

— High-Heeled Shoe

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“He did not even cry, but then tears do not fall from the eyes alone. ”

— A Decision of the Heart